Appendix: Getting started
The purpose of this appendix is to help you get started and set up your environment so that you have everything you need to get the most out of this book.
You can run all code samples in this book on a Microsoft SQL Server box product, and most of the examples can be run on Microsoft Azure SQL Database. For details about the differences between the flavors, see the section “The ABCs of Microsoft RDBMS flavors” in Chapter 1, “Background to T-SQL querying and programming.”
The first section, “Getting started with Azure SQL Database,” provides a link to the website where you can find the information you need to get started with Azure SQL Database.
The second section, “Installing a SQL Server box product,” assumes you want ...
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